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There are policy details on her website: https://kamalaharris.com/issues/
But it's pretty simple overall. She's not a maverick, what's on offer is simply the Dem agenda with a younger change of guard. The Dems believe in running the economy from the middle class, because investing in people is how we achieve long-term economic success and improve quality of life. So all her policies are going to be the same they would have been for Obama or Biden: improve social protections, improve access to education, improve access to housing, lower costs of living, make the corporations and wealthy pay their fair shares, pull away from needless wars, strengthen international relationships and create trade agreements of mutual benefit.
She can talk policy until she's blue in the face, but we all should already know exactly what we are getting when we vote for a Democrat. The last time this country had a balanced budget it was Democrat. When we raise the minimum wage, it's a Democrat. When we try to make education more affordable or help those with student debt, it's a Democrat. When we strengthen unions and increase taxes on corporations, it's a Democrat. When we pull out of wars, when we increase social services, when we increase protections for minorities, when we secure our clean water and block chemicals and pesticides in our food and household products, when we raise fuel efficiency standards and make corporations pay for pollution, it's a Democrat.
It baffles me that we have to talk about this stuff like it's new. It's simple and it has been for years:
You want a party that runs the economy like adults, and works for the middle class and the well-being of the people: Democrats.
You want a party that works for the rich and corporations, blows up the budgets recklessly, and thinks the low and middle classes are a resource to be used and drained: Republicans.
While we are on this spicy topic today, someone please remind me, what did Jill Stein do?
See, that's what I'm not thrilled about.
You're only arguing the "I'd vote for a ham sandwich to keep the GOP from power" side. You don't need to argue that part, we all know this, and it isn't what the person you're replying to was asking.
No one even said anything about Jill Stein here, bringing her up now feels like a very bad faith argument.
Amazing.
90% of my comment was to explicitly say what Democrats do. And you managed to single out the 10% that wasn't about Democrats.
Why stop there? Throw in some "both sides" stuff too.
I didn't feel the need to go over the DNC point-by-point. I said the Dem agenda is what I'm not thrilled about.
Do I have to go point-by-point before I can ask why you felt the need to bring up the Republicans and even Jill Stein at all when it's clear that wasn't the question being asked? We all know they're bad, but the fact that it seems like the only way to talk about the DNC is to keep reminding us that they're not the other guys, you were explicitly asked to actually say what's good about Kamala without doing that.
Asks for good points about Kamala Harris without mentioning any bad points about republicans. Gets lots of substantial points and a throwaway about Stein. Ignores all the points about democrats and greys very cross about mentioning Stein once at the end.
https://lemmy.world/comment/12851475
What conclusions am I to draw? You just hate it when other people don't follow the letter of your laws,even the ones you didn't say out loud? That you hate discussing bad points about Kamala's opponents? That people can tell you benefits of voting for Kamala as much as they like, you'll never hear any of it and you'll still assert that no one can come up with any?
I didn't ignore what you said, I responded by saying I'm not thrilled about the DNC agenda. It's all too little too slowly, without addressing underlying structural issues with capitalism. Did you need me to quote each line individually in order to say that?
What I don't like is that even when the question is explicitly "Regardless of how bad the other side is, what's actually good about the DNC?" you are incapable of not pivoting that question back to talking about how bad the other guys are. We know, but that wasn't the question.
What I don't like is that I can't even say "I'm not thrilled about the DNC agenda" without having all kinds of accusations hurled in my face.
Correction, you can't say "tell me good things" and ignore all the good things, then complain that there were no good things, without being called out on it.